Blood cultures for patients with extracutaneous manifestations of lyme disease in the United States

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1733-1735

  Nowakowski, John ^a   McKenna, Donna ^a   Nadelman, Robert B ^a   Bittker, Susan ^a   Cooper, Denise ^a   Pavia, Charles ^a,b   Holmgren, Diane ^a   Visintainer, Paul ^c   Wormser, Gary P ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BAYSTATE HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHY; BURSITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYME DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULITIS; SPIROCHETE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72849120946     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648076     Document Type: Article

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